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Oh, by "dumb" I meant that they do not actually exchange data with the host, just their device descriptor. Having read the Symantec link elsewhere in the comments, I see this is indeed the case. So you actually have to download the software yourself?

Yeah, you download the software yourself from the internet.

That said, it appears that the charger does communicate with the software on the host computer to tell it how well charged the batteries are.

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